[oe] ipkg/opkg offical response

[Rod Whitby]

Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> So creation of "opkg-nogpg":
> 
> require opkg_svn.bb
> EXTRA_OECONF += "--disable-gpg"
> 
> would be nice addon. Creation of "curl-nossl" and selecting it is 
> something which should be rather DISTRO choice as it generate same 
> packages as "curl" recipe.

+1

> Solution would be creating DISTRO_IPK_PACKAGE_MANAGER ?= "opkg" and using 
> it in package_ipk/rootfs_ipk and other places. Then staging 
> ipkg-cl/opkg-cl as ipkg/opkg so we can use "${DISTRO_IPK_PACKAGE_MANAGER} 
> update". Distros which prefer to use ipkg will stay with it, others will 
> move to opkg.

Can we simplify to DISTRO_PACKAGE_MANAGER?  Will we ever want ipks and 
debs to be produced at the same time?

-- Rod